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Diggas range of trenchers are ideal for digging trenches for pipes, road repairs and general construction. The range includes the mini trencher, Bigfoot trenchers and Hydrive trenchers and every model ins manufactured in-house to the highest industry quality at our facility in Queensland, Australia. They feature an Eaton motor and Digga made gearbox enquiring reliability and performance, but how do you know which trencher is suitable for you? Here we go over the key differences between the Bigfoot and the Hydrive and machine suitability.                                                                        KEY DIFFERENCES Bigfoot Trencher Ideal for inexperienced or experienced operators. The Bigfoot trencher has a skid foot which makes getting the correct consistent depth easier. The foot has 3 or 4 pre-set depth settings dependent on the model. The Bigfoot has 1 spoil auger. All spoil is extracted to one side of the trench leaving one side clear to work.  100mm to

Digga Australia have been announced winners of the 2019 September Manufacturing Award by the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards! We’re passionate about manufacturing and this award is a result of an ongoing commitment to keeping manufacturing in Australia. Digga is a global leader within the earthmoving industry, with over 70 different types of machinery attachments and their distribution to over 50 countries worldwide. As an Australian manufacturer, we strive for the highest quality, world-class standards for our products. We believe this can only be achieved by investing in both our people and the best quality manufacturing equipment available. Digga currently employs 229 people globally, 165 of which are based at our main manufacturing facility on the Gold Coast. The 12,500sqm purpose-built factory in Yatala, features one of the largest and most advanced machine shops in Queensland, which supplies over 85% of the componentry used by our other facilities across Australia, t

“What a day we had at DDT” – Fiona from Albury, Wodonga told us the funny story about the day she won the 10K Digga Voucher at the Diesel Dirt and Turf Expo. “My partner Dan, who owns an earthmoving and tree-logging business spontaneously decided to head up towards Sydney to take a look at a second-hand truck, so I said, why don’t we make a few-days trip out of it? That’s how we ended up at the DDT, since Dan then also wanted to check out some equipment for his business. As soon as we entered the show a guy approached us with two hats, which we should wear for a chance to win a $50 petrol voucher. I told Dan, let’s do it – we put on the hats and started walking around – it was a horrible rainy day – but there was plenty of stuff to look at. Somebody then told us about the large Machines4U & Digga prize draw. Seeing as I wanted to keep myself busy throughout the day, while Dan was looking at all the machinery, I decided to go ahead with it and collect all necessary stamps on our

Only $792 to reach our goal of $100,000 in donations for the Ovarian Cancer Research foundation in 2019. Through combined efforts with the very generous earthmoving industry, Digga Australia together with Kanga Loaders, so far, we’ve been able to raise over 99K.  The fundraising started in March when we sponsored and helped organise the Diesel Dirt and Turf Expo Golf Day. Over 30K was raised through charity auctions and the generosity of everyone involved. This was followed by the donation of a Kanga Loader which was auctioned off at the DDT Expo in May. In June we donated a second machine which was auctioned at the Hire 19 tradeshow in Melbourne in June. Finally, a few dedicated Digga employees participated at the Bridge to Brisbane Charity run last month, where another $3,740 was raised in donations. The Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation was chosen as a partner charity of Digga, a foundation dedicated to developing and implementing an early detection program and improving

You will at some point need to replace your auger teeth , when is dependent on how often they are used, how they are looked after and the ground conditions they are being used. However, the teeth on your auger should be changed as soon as reasonable wear is noticed and before any pocket wear occurs. The productivity of the auger will decrease as the efficiency of the teeth wears. The outside teeth are travelling the greatest distance as they follow the rotation of the circumference of the augers diameter so they will wear out much quicker than those towards the centre. This is because they have not been travelling as greater distance. The most common sign of wear is to the outer tips of the tooth and this wear will follow the radius of the diameter. If you continue to wear through your outer teeth, you will begin to wear into the pockets and the flights of the auger. It is important to check your teeth regularly to work productively and efficiently. If you find yourself in a r